Big Jimbo

Looks good. We love a picture on here.

On Off. You are right. You do sound like a tight old git.

Fab place with a bit of land around it. I love this picture. to me it says. small hobbit person, with a huge shovel, loading a giant wheelbarrow that once full they will never be able to move. Over that low ledge is a cliff face with a sixty foot drop to the crashing waves below. Just reminds me of land of the giants. Having spent all of my summer holidays every year in Ireland, i though all of the houses were damp. All the ones i stayed in were. In the morning when there had been no fire lit, the bedclothes were always damp, and it was not because i had weed myself.

Looks great. I expect you have moved on a fair bit since.

Russdl. Is that your gaff they used on the website. Must be nice to have such a cool house in this weather fella.

Radian. Nice looking place.

Blow up sumo suit. Then the air trapped in the suit would keep you insulated from the cold air outside the suit. You would look like a right cock but......just saying

All looking good fella. Well done.

Stick it on the one on the left. Horizontal inlet to the drain is fine.

I have got the Festool and the 2 1400mm tracks that join together for cutting longer boards. Expensive but very good.

Leave it alone. Lapped the wrong way is not a problem. A bit of water pooling might be unsightly, but not a problem.

Have you got any pics ?

You are some sort of mastic filler. You should be able to get something that would be a close colour match. Have a word with your flooring guy.

No vacancies, or elections at the moment. in fairness i dont intend staying in the area. However, i did take an active part in the local neighbourhood plan. This was made up of one member of the P.C. and the rest of us just residents. About 10 people in total. Most of the residents openly said that they wanted to help because they wanted to block any new housing. We wrote a series of questions and hand delivered about 5000 of them. had about 450 responses. Held an open day etc etc. The leader then said that the responses would be run passed the P.C. I questioned why, as this should be what the local people want, not the P.C. I was then told that any policies would have to align with the wishes of the P.C. That was when i walked. I then found that in the first draft of policies that they had written had little to do with the responses from the public, and everything to do with what the P.C. wanted. Parish Councils should be wound up.

Actually i have just had a thought. We should all be complete experts in the NPPF and all of the local councils saved policies / local plan, etc. That way we could tick a box at the end of our applications to say that we have considered and met all the local and national Policies. That would save the planning officers having to do anything except send out our approved letters. Some of them might actually get the letters out within 8 weeks then. Obviously not all of them. That would be way too hard.

"most skim" they all skim. My local Parish council consists of all the old farts who live in the big houses, but have been around the area for ever. At the public meetings it it obvious that most of them have failed to even look at the plans, let alone read a long D and a statement. When the plans are projected onto the screen they are usually met with "Oh , i dont like that". They then make stupid comments which are not material considerations, and object. The result is that even if the Planning Officer decides to support the application, it has to go before the council planning comm. What a waste of time and money. If the old farts on the PC dont even know what a material objection is what hope do jo public have..... Now lets go back to planning officers. Find me a few who have been sacked for being utter twats. Lets face it, job with the council means a job for life. Even if you are rubbish. My daughter was asked, as a management consultant, to look at a council dept. After three months she reported that the dept which had over 30 members of staff could be run by 3 to 5 people max. Most people liked to "work from home" but actually achieved very little, and that the department managers had no management skills, or offered little direction to staff. That was a few years ago. I bet by now the dept has about 50 people. I have no doubt that there will be some fantastic planning officers, but without doubt, there are also a load of crap one's. The whole planning system needs a re-vamp. Less than 10% of Great Britian has been concreted over. We have massive housing needs. Huge housing prices, and lots and lots of Nimby's. If the other 90% was used for food production that would be something. However, most of it sits there doing nothing.

Fair play On Off. What a top fella you are. I will be in touch when i want some light engineering done.

Well done. It reads very well....... Lets be honest though, you gave your mate down the planning office a quick ring (wink, wink. Nudge nudge. ) You should start a side business helping other people write a decent D and A Statement....... I still have a major problem with your average planning officer. Planning officer. "I wont allow any flat crown roof areas." Me. "Why not ?" Planning officer. "I dont like them". Me. "Can you point me towards a national or local policy that says, no crown roofs". Planning officer. "I dont need to. I will refuse it on the basis that it does not fit in with the local venacular. Me. "but unless you are in an aeroplane you wont be able to see it" ......I do wonder if yours would have gone through if the whole of it was a flat roof ? Most of the NPPF and the local saved policies are badly written, and allow the planning officer to twist them if he wants to either pass, or refuse an application. Banking used to be very similar. An individual using some training, and a crib sheet decided to either give you a loan, or decline it. The decision making process was taken away from them, and centralised, because generally the lending was poor quality.........So your average joe, will have to either hire, at great expense, a planner to write a D and A, or do there best to have a go at writing there own. If it is not up to your obvious high standards is it considered to be another rubbish application ?. I still think that compromising photos are the best way of guaranteeing that an application will go through. No offence ment, as i do think your D and A is top drawer. Well done and congratulations.

Big band of easyfill around the edges of new plaster to new. A decent 12" or so wide band. Then sand with either a wood, or cork block.

I dont believe that any of the warrenty providers provide cover for basements. However, i'm happy to be proved wrong. If they don't then i would expect potential problems with trying to obtain a mortgage in the future.

I would put lvt under everything except the shower tray. Much easier to lay.

As sson as you step outside of "Normal build" lenders can and do become total w*n*ers. Its long overdue for the industry to move on.

Your builder seems to have very little idea about warm roof, or insulation. Hate to think of how many extensions / builds he has done.

I agree, but the sums of cash required if you dont know what you are doing, or can do it yourself , are eye watering.

Im with Onoff. Tech stuff. I love it, but dont have a clue unfortunately.